Digital support for abductive learning in introductory computing courses

SIGCSE 2007: 38th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 14-18

  Radenski, Atanas ^a  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abduction; Active learning; CS1 2; Java; Laboratory; Python

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; WEB BROWSERS;

ABDUCTIVE LEARNING; ACTIVE LEARNING; COMPUTING COURSES; PYTHON;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34748884890     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1227310.1227318     Document Type: Conference Paper

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